but is were going to make the memorys portable.. we need to make the things they are pointing to portable also..
I don’t think “oh it’s lines 10-50 in file A that has this code I’m looking for”. It’s much looser, something like:
- maybe I can’t fully remember file A’s name but I can fuzzy search for it based on what I do remember
- I search for a function or variable name that I remember, again kind of fuzzy searching. Or if I can’t find it,
- I start quickly scanning the whole file for relevant variable/function names
Obviously storing exact references will be more efficient at lookup time but to your great point, the environment is changing too much, especially now. Having just a) a starting point on where and what to search and b) an understanding the code base will and should change , feel like some of the principles a memory system should assume. Not that it’s mutually exclusive with what you said - just not sure the juice is worth the squeeze to make the thing memory is pointing to portable.